actions change your fate. Much controversy is created involving this topic, especially in a unique literary text named Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. This novel consists of six short stories taking place in the slums of lower-class Brooklyn, New York throughout the 1950’s. This novel has aroused much controversy because of Selby’s blunt style of writing involving drugs, sex, prostitution, and violence. Many readers found the novel offensive during the time it was published because they worried
1996, 2000). Modern criminology with rational system of control; where the rule of law based on the belief people exercise choice. “The ethos of productivity was rejected in the age & society of leisure. Mind expanding drugs, permissive sexuality, the new rock music & transcendental poetry all articulated the peaceful principles of a ‘flower power’ whose opposition was committedly non-violent ” (Sumner, 1994:200). As the period of 1945-1980s focused on problems of challenging power of the state, civil
The folktales provided African Americans the opportunity to inspire and educate one another. Examples of African American folktales include trickster tales of Br'er Rabbit and heroic tales such as that of John Henry. The Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris helped to bring African-American folk tales into mainstream adoption. Harris did not